Tebaldi O Quotes

#1. Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

Naomi Watts

#2. How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you 'Mama,' but 'Renata.'

Renata Tebaldi

#3. I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.

Renata Tebaldi

#4. I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.

Maria Callas

#5. I know America is the country that loved me most.

Renata Tebaldi

#6. Sometimes we're not even aware that we're afraid.

Spencer Johnson

#7. I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

Renee Fleming

#8. You said that love couldn't kill me." "Yes, but it might kill your mother." She manages a small smile.

Nicola Yoon

#9. I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.

Renata Tebaldi

#10. I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.

Elliot Smith

#11. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

Paul Feyerabend

#12. Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm ... she had dimples of iron.

Rudolf Bing

#13. 9 years earlier "Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it." Isaiah 13:9

Phillip W. Simpson

#14. I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.

Renata Tebaldi

#15. My mother was my best friend and confidante.

Renata Tebaldi